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Bakery Photography in Poundbury

‘Our Bakeries’ are reworking their lunch menu and asked us to come along and document the new menu being made and the final dishes. They are to be used both for marketing and internally so the other bakeries are able to see how each dish should look to keep standards high through all their bakeries.

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Sarah and Rob’s Dartmouth and Blackpool Sands wedding

Sarah and Rob are a lovely couple with a great bunch of friends and family. Their wedding day was emotional, fun, relaxed and right by the sea. idyllic! The ceremony was just down the road, in their local church in the beautiful town of Dartmouth. Sarah was even able to look out of her window and see where she would soon be married; you can see the view from the first photo below.

Once Sarah and Rob had married, we all headed over to Blackpool Sands where they had a marquee erected right next to the beach. As everyone sipped champagne in the warm sunshine while listening to the fantastic Stelar Parov, the day couldn’t have been more charming. We headed out on to the beach for a few photos of just the two of them and then retreated indoors as the sun went down, to the coziness of the marquee and speeches from family and friends.

After speeches, the music started up again and the drinks flowed, later on Sarah’s brother got on stage to play with his band and rocked the night away, with everyone either on the dance floor, in the photo-booth or at the bar!

Here’s a few photos to show the story of their day.

– Henley

St Saviours Church, Dartmouth Bridesmaid holding champagne Laughing bridesmaids

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Sarah Pigott - Henley,

Thank you so so much for these. The whole album is amazing and everything we could have hoped for. We can’t stop looking at it and reliving the day as well as seeing a few bits that we missed!! (Completely missed Tom ‘weight lifting’ Mikey and Luke! Love it!) It was so great to have you there to capture it all for us.

Thank you

Sarah and Rob
Patryk Stanisz - Great job! I like your photographs!

Ashley and Alan’s chinese wedding at The Mandarin Oriental in Singapore

One of the best things about being wedding photographers is the lovely couples that Henley and I get to meet and build friendships with through our work. You get to share and be part of their journey to being married, but rarely get the opportunity to work with them again; so it was wonderful to receive and email from Ashley telling us about her second wedding ceremony and asking if Henley and I would photograph it for them.

Ashley and Alan had originally booked us for their wedding ceremony at the Holland Park Orangery in London back in 2012, and as Ashley is from Singapore, she wanted a traditional Chinese wedding back home so she could celebrate with friends and family who were unable to attend the wedding ceremony in London. Having never been to Singapore before, we were both struck by the beauty of the city, the iconic and modern buildings mixed with the colonial designs of Raffles Hotel and the symbolic Merlion to give a unique feel and ambience.

On the day of the wedding, Ashley and Alan prepared for their ceremony together in their suite at the beautiful Mandarin Oriental Hotel, and Ashley got to wear her custom Stewart Parvin wedding dress again and looked just as beautiful and glowing as she did at her London wedding. The Mandarin Oriental is a luxury hotel with a unique oriental design, allowing us to use it as a gorgeous and striking backdrop for couple photography.

The Singapore skyline is filled with glittering lights and iconic buildings, and as the pool at the Mandarin is near the top of the hotel, we took full advantage of the views. We also knew how much the couple loved the Holland Park fountain shot we tool at their London wedding and wanted to create a Singapore version for them.

A Chinese wedding has a few different traditions compared to English weddings, firstly there is the tea ceremony where Ashley and Alan presented tea to their family. After the tea ceremony, there was a change into to a traditional Chinese wedding gown for Ashley followed by a cake cutting, champagne toast and an eight course Chinese wedding banquet. The video and photos of the London wedding were played to all the guests throughout the meal which we were also invited to experience. We were so blessed to have been able to spend a second wedding day with Ashley and Alan, and look forward to catching up with them again soon.

– Laura

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Wendy Wong - Impressive! Your shots are artistically executed, making full use of lines, angles & lighting that our buildings, foliage & ambient light offer. I love all your photos! Your photos help me in my ongoing journey in photography as a favoured hobby. Thanks!

London Fashion Week

Canon cameras invited us to London Fashion Week to photograph a show by designer Julien MacDonald, with a view to producing a set of photos in our style (although we also took a few catwalk fashion shots for fun). You may remember we shot LFW last year, also with CPS (Canon Professional Services); you can view that by looking at our previous London Fashion Week article.

After the show we were shown in to a room where Canon had set up a 360 photography rig at the show called Canon Fashion 360˚ Studio. Utilising many Canon cameras rigged up in a circle to photograph at the same moment, causing anyone in the middle of the rig to have their very own personal freeze frame Matrix moment. Of course myself and Laura had to jump in and you can check it out at the bottom of the post.

London Fashion Week Canon 360 from Henley Bailey on Vimeo.

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Sally and Duncan’s Wedding at Shilstone House

Duncan and Sally’s relationship writes like a real life fairytale love story. After independently emigrating to sun drenched Barbados for work, they met, fell in love and spent an idyllic two years together on the island before returning back to the UK together for their dream countryside wedding, and to find and move into their first marital home.

Duncan’s parents live in the South West and after viewing the magnificent Shilstone House as a potential venue, they fell in love with the rolling countryside views and knew it was the perfect setting for their day. They wanted to include as much of nature as possible and Unfortunately mother nature (UK version) got totally on board with this idea and gave them an overcast sky and heavy rain for most of the day; but thanks to the vista of the rolling hills and grandeur of the house it gave a dramatic misty ‘wuthering heights’ windswept feel to the day, especially watching the clouds roll over the Devonshire landscape. Despite the weather not being quite as they had hoped, the day was beautiful with a fantastic crowd so it turned out brilliantly with some great memories to look back on.

Sally looked absolutely breathtaking in her gorgeous wedding dress, and despite warning us that she would probably be in tears throughout the ceremony, she managed to hold them back amazingly well. She did say afterwards that this was down to knowing that if she didn’t cry and Duncan did, she could remind him of that through their marriage. 1:0 to Sally.

Both Sally and Duncan have very close friendship groups and it is clear to see just how much they mean to their friends and family, there were plenty of tears as they said their vows and during the speeches. It was very clear that these two are surrounded by so much love and support from a wonderful network of family and friends, we felt privileged being invited in to their fold for the day.

After dinner and speeches in the Indian Marquee in the grounds, Duncans close friend Mel wowed everyone in the evening with her fantastic hooping routine, and even managed to get the bride and groom up to have a go!

– Henley